Hi all

Turns out that I was caught on camera a couple of times during the run. See the pictures here: http://spotted.stiften.dk/gallerier/dhl-stafetten-2011-torsdag-loeberene#405286 and here: http://spotted.stiften.dk/gallerier/dhl-stafetten-2011-torsdag-loeberene#405288. I’m the one on the far right of the last picture

The certificate for my team can be seen here: http://aarhusmotion.dk/diplomabg.aspx?Id=22080&type=team – ignore the team I am registered for – that is due to me being late for the switch. The 5km took me just below 24:30 minutes.

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eliasen

Hi all

The “DHL stafet” is a 5x5km relay race that is held annually here in Denmark in the largest cities.

My employer Logica always participates and this year we had about 20 teams as far as I recall. I participated last Thursday on one of these teams and despite the fact that my achilles tendon and knees are still bust I ran a pretty good race for someone who hasn’t been training seriously for 3 years.

The 5km took me 24:27 minutes and this is actually a lot faster than I had thought I could. The official time, unfortunately, is 25:55 because I was late for the switch so my time started almost 1,5 minutes before I received the depeche.

Anyway, my team was the fast mix-team from Logica, so that’s great! And actually we came in as number 31 out of 1214 teams. Had I been on time for the switcch we would have come in around place number 20 instead of 31.

Next year I will really try to be on time!

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eliasen

Bummer! It seems I have busted my knees so yesterday I ended up pending 45 minutes on a cross trainer instead of the treadmill.

Those cross trainers bug me – I can’t help thinking that I look really silly when I use them.

And it is quite impossible for me to keep up the pace if I need to wipe sweat of my forehead using a towel.

And finally, the calorie consumption isn’t anywhere near a good run…

I really hope my knees are back in shape soon…

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eliasen

Hi all

My achilles tendon is still aching and my knees have begun to hurt as well… But I am still running regularly (3 times a week) and today I made it to 9.58km in 50 minutes. Definitely not as fast as I used to be, but it feels great to be running again.

I am only running on a thread mill in order to try to not be mean to the achilles tendon. It can get boring to run on a thread mill, but it is better than nothing. I have bought a music system so I can listen to music while I am running and I am using my Garmin Forerunner 305 to measure pulse while running.

I have also started using Endomondo – you can find my account at http://www.endomondo.com/profile/390235.

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eliasen

Hi all

So… finally… I joined a gym again. just went there this morning for the first time in 3 years or so.

I ran 2,5-3km with an average speed of 10,6km/h – I need to take it slow because I have some pain in one of my Achilles tendons which is bugging me.

Hopefully I will keep up training and get back into shape… or at least partly!

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eliasen